[ganong] origins of SETTLEMENTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK U7 



Magundy, — T. Irish immigrant settlement, formed before 1822, by Protestant 

 Irish. (Loc. inf.; C. R.). 



Manners Sutton, — Y. Parish est. 1855. Settled first about 1818 by Americans 

 at Brockway, and later by English, Scotch and Irish immigrants near 

 Harvey and Cork, and their expansion later to Oromocto Lake and the 

 upper Magaguadavic waters. 



Maple Grove Settlement, — Y. N.B. and N.S. Land Company settlement, formed 

 by immigrants from Great Britain and native settlers from the Nash- 

 waak. (Loc. inf.). 



Maple Ridge, — Y. Native, formed about 1870 by expansion from St. John 

 under the N.B. and N.S. Land Company. (Loc inf.). 



Mapleton, — A. Native farming settlement formed in 1845 by expansion from 

 Elgin Corner. (Loc. inf.). 



îVlaquapit, — Q. Important pre-historic Indian (Maliseet) village on the thor- 

 oughfare between Maquapit and Grand Lakes, in a situation admirable 

 for the fishery. The site is notable for the gi-eat abundance and variety 

 of pre-historic implements it has yielded. (An account of the site is 

 given by L. W. Bailey in the Bull. N.B. Nat. Hist. Soc. VI, 1887, 3; 

 also same Bull., XIII, 1896, 84; Hist. Sites, 228). 



Markhamville, — K. Recent mining (manganese) village in the midst of a 

 native expansion district. 



Marr Settlement, — Q. Recent Irish immigrant settlement. (Loc. inf.). 



Martignon, — J. Former fortified French trading post on the west side of 

 St. John Harbour, founded in 1672 by Sieur de Martignon, but abandoned 

 before 1698. The name has been recently revived (Martinon) as the 

 name of a railway station. (Hist. Sites, 277, 309). 



Martin's Head, — J. Grants made here in 1785, but settlement was probably 



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Martin's Point. — R. See Campbellton. 



Martin Settlement, — M. Est. 1896 under the Free Grants Act. 



Maryland, — Y. Early native settlement, formed about 1817 by expansion of 

 the descendants of the Mai-yland Loyalists from St. Mary's parish, 

 joined by some Scotch immigrants. (Loc. inf.; C. R.). 



Marysville, — Y. Modern mill and manufacturing town located at the falls 

 of the Nashwaak. Apparently there was a mill here in the English 

 period and probably through the Loyalist period; in 1866 the small 

 village, Blake's Mills, was purchased with large areas of timber lands 

 on the Nashwaak, by Alexander Gibson, under whose masterly man- 

 agement the mills have greatly prospered, a large cotton mill has been 

 built, and the Canada Eastern railway constructed through it; town 

 incorporated 1887. (History of Mr. Gibson's original purchase, by 

 Edward Jack, in the St. John Sun, March 20, 1895 ; also Ward, 52). 



Mascareen, — C. Scotch immigrant settlement, formed in 1822 by Highlanders 

 from Perth, Sutherland and Caithness. (Atkinson, Emigrant, 48). 



